New Economics Foundation

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Responding to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s review on high cost credit the End the Debt Trap campaign, supported by the New Economics Foundation, say the proposals set out today will not solve the deep, systemic and growing problem of household debt in the UK. The End the Debt Trap campaign is now calling for Parliament to intervene and force the FCA to extend the cost cap...

A new economy is emerging. And this new economy is powered by a new type of fuel: data. As the data economy becomes increasingly prominent, there are troubling signs that it is worsening existing power...

The UK is suffering from a housing crisis, and Birmingham is no exception. Only 16% of houses built in the city in 2016-17 were affordable, and gentrification is spreading across the city rapidly. But...

New analysis from the New Economics Foundation shows how elements of our economy are causing increased stress and therefore increasing cost to and strain on the NHS. The analysis finds that there were 17,500 episodes where stress or anxiety was the primary cause for hospital admission and shows that this led to 165,800 days where beds were occupied due to stress or anxiety, at a cost to...

The UK is facing a mental health crisis and it is largely due to our broken economic system. Almost three quarters of people (74%) felt at some point last year they were so stressed that they were...

EVENT: Central Hall Westminster, 1:30pm-5:00pm, Monday 21 May Many agree that politics has entered a populist phase. But what are the implications for the health of our democracy, and for activists and campaigners working for change within the traditional democratic process? This isn’t just about Brexit and Trump. Established parties all over Europe and beyond have been shifted by...

Policy makers and academics are increasingly interested in wellbeing inequality. The vast majority of academic studies into wellbeing inequality currently use standard deviation of personal wellbeing...

If there’s one thing that we learned from the political turmoil of the past few years it’s that people have woken up to the failings of our old economic model. The splintering of the electoral map–...

This guide is designed to help groups looking to build community-led, affordable housing development in their area overcome one of their greatest obstacles: acquiring land. Surplus public land provides a resource which could kickstart community-led, affordable development, but all too often it is sold to the highest bidder, not community groups. We have developed this guide to help...